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She/they.
If you want to be a coward about things, fine, keep your mouth shut while these assholes further enable & enact violence against our trans sisters
But even then you just shut the fuck up.
Deciding you need to actively entertain these sorts of arguments steps into the territory of appeasement
A fun fact for contrarians in my responses: there is no need to take trans panic people seriously, ever! Literally no need
If we ever get out of this and into a progress timeline again, I hope no one ever lets him forget this
A self-styled LGBTQ hero until the exact second it required some semblance of a backbone
Fuck you, Pete. You and all the other mealy-mouthed appeasers.
Even by coward logic this is so foolish.
Go read some Niemöller poetry ffs
"I think in order to bring people together on this, we also have to take everyone seriously."
He's talking about bigots, let's not mince words.
“I think in order to bring people together on this, we also have to take everyone seriously."
So basically Apple got out of tariffs - while getting everyone else tariffed - in exchange for a gold statue and an empty promise
I mean at some level you have to almost be like “respect”
For context, there are (were) a total of 14.3 million union members in the US.
Shaving a half mil off that is... not insignificant.
400,000 VA workers lose their union. [Free link.]
Exclusive: US Customs and Border Protection arrest 2 women on Alvarado and 8th around 3:15pm. They can be heard saying they're US Citizens. Verified by L.A. TACO.
What did I just watch
Currently reading an article about the impact of AI hype. There’s so much here, but the impact of AI investment on the balance of military investment and power is the most damning.
(Highlights my own)
Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
![A screenshot from an academic paper about the impact of AI hype that is highlighted. It reads:
We see this dynamic at play in OpenAI's shifting stance and policies as they have become more closely tied to Microsoft, a choice they made admittedly to access scarce computational resources. This is illustrated by the 2024 change to their acceptable use policy, which significantly softened the proscription against using their products for "military and warfare"; this change unlocked new revenue streams [112], connected OpenAI's large scale AI to Microsoft's existing US military partnerships [135], and later pushed AI to direct battlefield application via a partnership with the defense-tech company Anduril [85]. The public did not have a say in this determi-nation, nor, we assume, did the global stakeholders whose interests may not be safeguarded by the militaries that OpenAl chooses to provide services to. And yet, the concentrated private industry power over Al creates a small, and financially incentivized segment of AI decision makers. We should consider how such concentrated power with agency over centralized Al could shape society under more authoritarian conditions.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:bep462xlz63fm6a3lnmtgteb/bafkreia3mqazleigcyaejrcp7wvmj3ihmn2w2zccp2wufux736okp4cfha@jpeg)
Running out of ways to describe how bad things are getting. The Trump administration is now going after immigration lawyers who have tried to stop the government from deporting their clients. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
DOJ’s move comes after Trump directed the department to seek to sanction lawyers “who engage in frivolous, unreasonable, and vexatious litigation.”
